by Bob Walsh
The pseudo-teachers in the Oakland, CA Unified School District are going to strike later this week over wages (primarily). They have not had a contract in two years and want a 12% raise. The district is offering 5%. A non-binding arbiter appointed by the PERB asserted that the teachers should get 3% retroactive for each of the last two years and new negotiations for the current year. Each 1% salary raise costs the district not quite $2 million.
The real pisser is that the Oakland School District is a joke. You graduate if you do not commit a violent felony in school and get caught at it. Being able to read or do basic math is not necessary. Showing up for school is optional. The students who actually WANT to get an education, all 17 of them, would be better off hanging at the public library or a local book store (if there is still one in Oakland) rather than getting mugged on the way to school or risk getting raped or beaten up in a bathroom.
California schools used to be the envy of the world. Now they beat out the schools in Macedonia, sometimes, if the wind is in the right direction.
For all I care they should put a fence around Oakland and use it as one huge penal colony. It is pretty much that now anyway. Instead of paying a toll at the bay bridge drivers could be required to throw cans of pork and beans out of their cars into the city for the prisoners to eat.
(Yeah, I'm prejudiced. I was born there. It was a decent, blue-collar working class city back then. That was then. This is now. Liberal policies and liberal idiots have killed it, like they killed Detroit, Chicago and Baltimore.)
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